SpaceX Internship (Summer 2015)

My summer at SpaceX was an incredibly challenging, intense, and rewarding experience. Each day I had the chance to interact with and learn from some of the best engineers and managers in the aerospace. Additionally, I was always encouraged to push myself harder to become a better engineer and professional by everyone on my team. I’m proud of what I accomplished that summer and can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that working for SpaceX was one of the most influential learning experiences of my life.

Some of my favorite projects involved:

Designing a special camera gimbal system to measure the thickness of frozen RP-1 fuel inside the 2nd stage fuel tank during testing. The results from this project were used to make design decisions about the 2nd stage. This system worked so well that I was asked to create 3 more for subsequent testing!

Overseeing some of the shipping configuration planning and logistics of the 2nd stage rockets between the different SpaceX launch and test facilities

Contributing to the testing that led to the discovery of the cause of failure of the CRS-7 failure

Due to ITAR restrictions and NDA agreements, I don’t have a lot of photos of my work from this summer. However, I’ve included some images of the F9 ‘Full-Thrust’ vehicle that most of my work contributed to, as well as some general SpaceX photos Enjoy!

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My summer at SpaceX was an incredibly challenging, intense, and rewarding experience. Each day I had the chance to interact with and learn from some of the best engineers and managers in the aerospace. Additionally, I was always encouraged to push myself harder to become a better engineer and professional by everyone on my team. I’m…